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Sara Majka’s debut collection of connected stories is a haunting, mesmerizing dreamscape.  Shelf Unbound: Your style is sparse and dreamlike. How did you decide on …

Persevering against hard knocks and strife, the residents of Calloustown are rendered with humanity and humor by short story master George Singleton.  Shelf Unbound: How …

Richly rendered characters populate Reliance, Illinois, which examines the lives of women in the late 1800s.  Shelf Unbound: How did you come up with the …

Long Promised Road: Carl Wilson, Soul of the Beach Boys by Kent Crowley Books about the Beach Boys tend to focus on Brian Wilson, depicting …

Untitled by Aaron McCollough WALNUT SKULL of some brutal fairy run afoul of my dog in the juniper mire what depends in these binds, passion …

All the magpies are here, all the wings in the soup, stirring the recognition of flight out of all touching. A milky breast and a …

my self-publishing journey In my last column I noted that traditional publishing marketing methods had turned out to be ineffective. I had sent out copies of …

Thoughts on the genre from J.K. Ullrich, whose Blue Karma is a finalist in the 2015 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Indie Book by J.K. …

Feature: Do you cli-fi?

Thoughts on “cli-fi” from the guy who coined the term by Dan Bloom What is climate fiction? Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood asked that question a …

About the Book: Jules Verne! Among boys a name to conjure with. What memories of half-forgotten books does it bring back! Journeys into the Interior …